Men's Group

I think you're misunderstanding me. Prior to the Industrial revolution women played a crucial indispensible role in the material economy of the family. The IR freed them from that. The service economy gave them a choice.

I understand what you're saying about the 60 hr work week and I agree. But when it came time to go out to the dangerous steel mill or the dirty factory, who went? Who had to assume that role as a wage slave while the other was able to maintain the millenia old family connection?

People tend to view the past through the lens of the present and we think of equality as the opportunity to work in an office in the career of one's choice. But back when those things were changing, in many ways total equality with her husband would have meant taking those horrible jobs. Jobs so horrible that the only women that actually took any of them were the ones from families so poor that they had no other choice.

Staying home is the privilege of living like a human being like human beings have lived for thousands of years.